Polishing-bag.



No. 768,938. I PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904. J..L. GUY0N.

POLISHING BAG.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1904 N0 MODEL.

IINTTED STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

PATENT Oriuca.

JOSEPH L. GUYON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, *ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RAYMOND E. DURHAM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

POLISHING-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 768,938, dated August 30, 1904;.

Application filed May 31, 1904:. Serial No. 210,471. (No model.)

To all whom, it 77I/CI/Z/ concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. Simon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Polishing-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in polishing-bags, and refers more specifically to a bag formed of pervious material and containing a polishing composition.

The salient objects of the invention are to provide a device of the character referred to which requires only to be dipped in water or other suitable liquid to be at once ready for use and adapted to remain in usable condition for a relatively long period of time without further treatment, to provide a device so constructed and composed that it is capable of repeated use and does not substantially deteriorate in use so long as the composition has not been completely used up or the bag worn out, to provide a device which may be manufactured at an exceedingly small cost and which is capable of wide and varied use as a domestic article and otherwise, and in general to provide an improved article of the charactcr referred to.

To the above ends the invention consists in the matters hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims. I

The invention will be readily understood from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates as a whole a bag formed of pervious material, that preferably employed being a relatively closely woven and heavy cotton drilling or canton-flannel. The bag may be formed in any preferred or suitable manner and is desirably made of a size convenient to be readily grasped in'the hand, the device being used by applying the bag to the, article to be polished or cleaned and rubbing it therewith. In

the particular instance illustrated the bag is 5 formed by suitably folding together an oblong rectangular blank of cloth and sewingtogether the top, bottom, and side edges, one side or end being left open in order to fill the bag and being suitably closed after filling.

The filling compound is composed of a finelypulverized abrasive material insoluble or substantially insoluble in water and a filling or vehicle of absorbent and insoluble or substantially insoluble material. I have found in practice that finely-pulverized whiting constitutes a very suitable polishing ingredient and that ordinary sawdust forms a suitable absorbent filler or vehicle. It will be obvious, however, that emery powder or other abra- 5 sive and substantially insoluble material may be substituted for or intermixed with the whiting and that in place of the sawdust any other comparatively absorbent material which will preserve its character when subjected to re- 7 peated wetting and using without caking or forming into a solid mass may be employed that is to say, the function of the filler is to maintain the finely-pulverized abradant in condition to quickly absorb the liquid into which the device is dipped preparatory to using it; to act as a distributer, which insures a constant and substantially regular filtering out of the abradant through the cover in use, and to impart to the device or bag as a whole such a character that it will readily dry out and remain in friable condition indefinitely. For example, granulated cork has been found to answer the purpose of a filler very well. I have found a satisfactory mix- 5 ture to be composed of approximately equal quantities of whiting and sawdust in bulk.

In using the deviceas, for example, in cleaning windows or smooth metal surfacesthe entire bag is simply dipped in water and al- 9 lowed to remain until it becomes more or less saturated, after which the polisher is applied over the surface to be cleaned or polished in the same way as though it were a polishing pad or cloth. While the device will ordinarily be used with water as a saturating medium, yet it will be obvious that in such cases where the use of water is objectionable the polisher may be dipped in benzene, gasolene, or other volatile liquid. After the device has been used it is simply laid away and permitted to dry out. After thus drying it will usually be found caked to a greater or less extent, but

nevertheless in readily friable-condition, so'

and a filling therefor composed of pulverized substantially insoluble abradant adapted for abrading metals and granulated absorbent but substantially insoluble material intermixed with the abradant to render the mixture friable and pervious to water.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a bag of finely-woven fabric and a filling therefor composed of pulverized mineral abradant and comminuted wood intermixed in proportions to render the entire mass absorbent and friable.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a bag of closely-Woven fabric and a filling therefor composed of Whiting and sawdust mixed in substantially the proportions set forth.

JOSEPH L. GUYON.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. GRAVES, FREDERICK O. GooDWIN. 

